Hi there! Remember me? Fran Mortinez? Long time, no see, right? :-D I used to live in Mariner’s Reach, where I tried to fish for a living and had luck making friends but no luck in my love life (which is OK, I’m having fun anyway…really! ;-p).

Since then, I’ve lived in a few different places, but right now I live in a dusty little desert town called Salty Springs.

Some of you might know the more famous town next door, Lucky Palms. Salty Springs is like Lucky Palms’ destitute cousin. Long ago it was a trendy resort area on the edge of a vast and sparkling lake, but since the lake dried up (mysteriously, of course…these things always happen mysteriously), it’s been kind of a ghost town.

Although it’s getting better — there’s a new art center, and some cool research is being done at the Area 52 Test Labs…but more on all of that later. I’m already spamming you to death!

I am seriously in lurve with Mariner’s Reach, the new world by Johnnywr. With its incredibly lush foliage and vast sandy beaches, it’s the perfect cure for my winter blahs. As soon as I saw it, I knew it had to be Fran’s new home. Forget Barnacle Bay, man — Mariner’s Reach is where it’s at!

It was serendipity. As soon as I saw that Kiwi_tea had released his version of Riverblossom Hills, and that at the same time, Tamo had put up a wonderful pair of cat-eye glasses for download, I knew it was finally time to make a TS3 version of one of my favorite TS2 Sims, Franchesca Mortinez.